Microsoft has announced a new Azure API Management Consumption tier. This new tier aligns with serverless architecture principles that includes automated scaling, built-in high availability and requires no infrastructure to provision or manage. Traditionally, Azure API Management has been deployed through a scale unit approach that is measured hourly. This approach results in billing events being accrued,...

I was recently playing with Azure Cognitive Services and wanted to test Sentiment Analysis of Twitter. In this blog post I will go through how to setup the different components and analyse the sentiment of Tweets that contain the Azure or AWS hashtag. We will then be able to compare the sentiment of Azure...

It is strongly recommended to use managed disks when deploying virtual machines in Azure. But one of the downsides of managed disks is that you are unable to move your virtual machines to another subscription. That is….until now! At Ignite 2018 Microsoft announced an update to the Microsoft.Compute Resource provider that let’s us move...

Hi, As Microsoft Ignite is now over I wanted to quickly download all Azure related slides. Luckily there are few PowerShell scripts available to do this but the best one I found is this one https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Ignite-2016-Slidedeck-and-296df316 developed by Michel de Rooij. I’ve noticed though that some of the default commands don’t work as expected. I would for...

Microsoft announced a series of exciting new offerings on Azure Disks at Ignite Conference today. Here is a quick summary of the Ignite releases: Ultra SSD: New Azure Managed Disks offering for your most latency-sensitive workloads Pricing | Azure Disks webpage Microsoft announced the Public Preview of Ultra SSD: a new Azure Managed Disks offering for your most...

In this blogpost I will show you how you can use Azure CDN to improve the performance of your WordPress site. I’m running WordPress for my blog and have a lot of static content. All my blog post, once written and published will not change and remain the same year after year. This is...

I finally got my hands on some Azure IoT Developer kits! In this blogpost I will cover how to get started with the Devkit, make sure it’s connected to the internet, upgrade the firmware and install all the prerequisites on your computer. Introduction The IoT Development Kit is based on the MXChip AZ3166 board....

Hi all, This blog post will cover how to transform data with Azure Machine Learning Workbench. One of the most important aspects in any Machine learning project is how accurate and how good your data is. If you have un-accurate or bad data the learning or simulation models will generate bad results. The main...

Hi all, After implementing the Governance policies and foundations described in“Deploying Azure resource policies” it is important to make sure the end-consumers will not be able to change or remove those policies. In the customer environment I’m currently working on we defined Azure Resource Policies to enforce tagging, naming conventions, allowed regions etc., but...